Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.
God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her
Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.
There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.
Good writing is good conversation, only more so.
For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.
I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.
Everything is your fault if you're any damn good.
To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.
Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.
I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.
The best writing is certainly when you are in love
If you're looking for messages, try Western Union.
Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.
All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.
Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.
Write as well as you can and finish what you start.
Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.
America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.
All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.
The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.
I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.
Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.
The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.
No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.
The most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen
There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
In order to write about life first you must live it.
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.
You must be prepared to work always without applause.
What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.
The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.
The further you go in writing the more alone you are.
I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.
You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone.
And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.
I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.
Having books published is very destructive to writing.
And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?
It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.
However you make your living is where your talent lies.
The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.